Re: New postfix vs. /var

In message <200806232028.m5NKSjhV013587%vtn1.victoria.tc.ca@localhost>
on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:28:45 -0700,
jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth) wrote:
> Does /var/lib/postfix contain files that the user ever has to look
> at? If not, then there is no reason to worry about where the files are
> placed.
Whatever contained in /var/lib/postfix, if we use /var/lib then we
must define the definition for "/var/lib".
My opinion is the same as Geert:
In message <20080623193948.GA1619%lori.ghen.be@localhost>
on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:39:48 +0200,
Geert Hendrickx <ghen%telenet.be@localhost> wrote:
> I think it is more important that different applications behave consistent on
> one OS (NetBSD) than that one application behaves consistently over different
> OS'es (qmail style).
> What goes under /var/lib/postfix, anyway?
from RELEASE_NOTES:
[Incompat 20071206] The "make install" and "make upgrade" procedures
now create a Postfix-owned directory for Postfix-writable data files
such as caches and random numbers. The location is specified with
the "data_directory" parameter (default: "/var/lib/postfix"), and
the ownership is specified with the "mail_owner" parameter.
data_directory is settable parameter, so changing the default isn't so
big problem.
On one machine running pkgsrc's postfix,
# ls -l /var/db/postfix
total 68
-rw------- 1 postfix postfix 1024 Jun 24 07:27 prng_exch
-rw------- 1 postfix postfix 32768 Jun 23 20:48 smtpd_scache.db
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Takahiro Kambe <taca%back-street.net@localhost>